The Singapore Free Press, 9 May 1950

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    17 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1950. PRICK TEN CENTS.
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    S.E. ASIAN ARMS AID IS READY
    516 1 U.S. may tell plans today WASHINGTON, Tuesday. ANNOUNCEMENT todav of the launching of; the American arms aid programme tor SouthEast Asia, aimed at advancing the independence! of Asian peoples, is predicted by Government officials following decision* reached at last week's secret meeting of the
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    36 1 woman S »p»»re Arr* nakc i pirture for the ProUm Gospel, j I'lion* the I i >n>iNt>» -f I producer .'id Mr. I ne ra man. .ill-round I \s n >t r Tnunc Mobile rot ure.
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    U.S. GIFT OF BOOKS TO FEDERATION
    42 1 Hep uter [FUR, Tues. i Legislajn of 20 American onal I 'ory. Government as made imber by < riS'.il, Mr. j to the Act- Mr. M -•mony B. Nichols. e United and 4 Council. nude part ol
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    Truman: Vital months ahead
    190 1 NEW YORK. Tuesday. PRESIDENT TRUMAN said yesterday that the decisions the IS. makes in the months ahead will determine whether there will be a Third World War. In a talk: to a trainside rrowd at Galesbure;, Illinois, the President assailed isolationists who would let the rest
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    4 SUSPECTS HELD
    22 1 Four bandit suspects were 1 arrested by security force* ir r the Jermaluan* area of Mers In?. Johore. yesterday.
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    END COLD WAR: LIE
    110 1 \f R. Trygve Lie, SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations, now in Geneva on his way to Moscow, appealed before the World Health Congress yesterday for two lines of worldwide action now: An all out effort to end the "cold war" Mys year and bold Treative action
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    Big Red loss in Austria
    56 1 VIENNA. Tues. AUSTRIAN voters, swamped the Communists in Sunday's elections In the province of Lower Austria, occupied by the Russians. They threw out of office ten of the 11 mayors appointed by Soviet Military authorities In 1945. The bloc backed by the Communists won only
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    U.S. SOLDIERS FOUND DEAD
    55 1 r THE U.S. Army has disclosed the death of two soldiers who were found unconscious In their Osaka barracks and said that military police authorities were Investigating. Private John. L. Ushry and Wesley E. Ivy died 15 minutes after their arrival at the Army Hospital In
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    BUS ACCIDENT
    25 1 A bus carrying Buddhists or an annual tour of Oahu Is land temples hurtled down curve on Sunday, injuring 2S threo seriously. A.p.
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    SHOT IN THE BACK
    26 1 Mr Lok Kwong, forme Nationalist labour leadei til shot In the back aw seriously wounded at a hot* in Portuguese Macao. A.P.
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    REDS FREE U.S. AIRMEN AFTER 3 YEARS
    143 1 pHINESE Communist miltV' tary authorities have released two United States Air Force men detained since 1948 after their plane had "invaded the air of China." Radio Peking reported last night. The men's names were fiven as E C. Bender and W. C. Smith.
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    AIR-SEA TEST
    35 1 British, Frenrh and Dutch aircraft carriers, cruisers. destroyers, and submarines with aircraft of the R.A F and Coastal Comi mand, will combine for manj oeuvres in the English Channel on May 22. Reuter
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    HATTA WARNS 'NO INTERFERENCE'
    166 1 HA TTA WARNS 'NO INTERFERENCE I JAKARTA, Tuesday. THT Indonesian Premier, Mohammed Hatta. announced last night that the federated republics of Indonesia would be merged soon into a unified state with a strong central government in Jakarta. He warned in a broadcast that the Government would tolerate no interference in
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    BANDITS KILL INDIAN MUSLIM
    51 1 Free Press Staff Reporter AN Indian Muslim, S. H. All bin Sazll. employed at the Lee Sawmill at Lampong, Kota Tinggi district, Johore, was shot dead by bandits yesterday. He was one of three men from the sawmill held up by 17 Malay and Chinese bandits.
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    U.S. authoress dies in U.K.
    82 1 OXFORD, England, Tues. J^ISS Agnes Smedley, American authoress and newspaper woman who was cleared of spy charges n the United States last year, died at Oxford on Saturday. Miss Smedley was 56 She waa accused of being a Soviet spy early last year in a
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    INDIA GIVES NOTICE
    48 1 l India has given notice tc the International Court of Justices that she wishes tc give oral evidence when the Court examines South p Africa's mandate obligations r, in South-West Africa a1 4 public hearings beginning or A May 10 at TTie Hague.— Reuj ter.
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    LORRY BURNED
    32 1 Free Press Staff Reporter Armed bandits burned a lorry and robbed its driver and attendant of their identity cards at the 33rd mile Ayer Hitam Johcre Bahru Road yesterday morning.
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    Poles quit, seek haven in West
    65 1 Poles quit, seek haven in W est FRANKFURT. Tues. QFFICIALS and employees of the Polish Consulate .at Frankfurt have resigned and asked West German au- thorities for asylum from their government. Tr.ey announced their resignation through the joint Public Information Office of the U.S. Army and the US. High Commissioner
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    Dignity fund
    36 1 An Imperial Household nomic conference, summoned by the Prime Minister. Shigi eru Yoshida. has appropriaI ted 4.875. 000 yen "to maintain the dlgn::y" of Princess Taka's marriage to Toshimichi Takatsukasa on May 20 Reuter
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    18 'specials' arrested
    73 1 Free Press SUIT Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. EIGHTEEN Malay special constables who were guarding a mine in the Kota Tinggi area of Johore have been placed under arrest for 1 leaving their posts without permission. The men had left in order to I lodge a complaint about
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    RAIDS ON TWO J.B. ESTATES
    52 1 Free Press Staff Reporter EIGHT bandits burnt down the kongsi house and smokehouse of Johore's state councillor. Dato Wong Shee Fun, in the Johore Bahru district last night. The bandits also destroyed a kongsi house and a smokehouse on an estate nearby, and stole five
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    U.S.I. mission
    43 1 The Indonesian mission headed by Dr. Asmaun, Director of the Foreign Economic Relations Division of the Welfare Ministry, leaves for the Netherlands this week to set i up an economic section in the office of the Indonesian High Commissioner there Reuter
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    18 1 picture. Some of the men who are fighting the Communists in Indo-Cnina. These legionnaires came from Tunis.-- A.P.
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    Flood cripples city
    66 1 "•I\NY parts of the great prairie city of Manitoba 5 1 (Canada) lay beneath a sea of iruddy water ye»- terday as troops and civilian volunteers worked wearily to bolster sagging levees in North Dakota and Minnesota. The silt-laden water spilled through Winnipeg streets, Si paralysing communications
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    ATOMIC PILE ON SHOW AT B.I.F.
    109 1 LONDON, Tuesday. 4 NINE-FOOT high working model of Britain's A largest atomic pile was the main attraction for overseas visitors to the British Industries Fair which opened in London and Birmingham today. The model, on show at the London end of the Fair is
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    Attlees for French tour
    70 1 THE Prime Minister, Mr. Attlee, and his wife plan an «Msht-d.i\ motor in* holiday in France during Parliament's Whitsuntide irceNS. With Mrs. Attlee at the wheel of her n;*w car. they expect to motor through the Loire Valley, starting <>n May Mr. Attlee has received thr
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    UKRIOTERS IN COURT
    55 1 LONDON. Tuei. r«IXTY-NlNfc alleged c munLst and Left-win;; demonairators were accu here vesierday folio, clashes with th? police duMay Day demonstrations Sunday. Seven wore fined up to LlO The cases against the o; were adjourned. Rioting broke out when demonstrators carrying banners vuth slogan** defied ban on
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    Schools: Gimson's warning
    146 1 Fr*»e Press Staff Reporter A TENDENCY in MM Singapore Khonil allow the boys in 1 higher classes to develop their personalities regardless of any direction of the teachers wa.^ referred to today b Governor, Sir Fnmklm Gimson. speaking on Education V. it the Victoria Memorial These boys
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    Colonial talks
    37 1 The French High C missioner In Inuo C: French West Africa. Fi Equatorial Africa. Madag;* and Cameroons. were b^ginn- talks In Paris yesterday on improving productivity an 1 thp welfare of the popula T Reuter
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    The Slave-girl's Champion
    623 2 The Slave-girl's Champion Singapore Women 2 RUTH LANG DON interviews Mrs. MARGARETWEBB \|HS. Margaret Webb, in Kuching, Sarawak, has done man} things for charity 111 ei life —worked tireless*) in social welfare offices and even begged ft] help others. At the age of 12. Mrs \v bb left Sarawak and
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    Swim suits for parties
    90 2 IF EstfH •s over C: er heat v i I > for the gii is oe ba who claims unai b bins suits are more r- waling evening (owns, has uesigned. with MetroGo, ci jrer fashion deer Helen Rose, formal from sjuickI nylon, the suits feacolonriul
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    THE 'NATURAL LOOK' NOW
    413 2 T-HE charge by New York designer Raymond Marinelli that women by aping the body lines of film stars had become too much alike has drawn a heated denial from another U.S. designer. Tne upstanding bustline already gone out, 1 said Cynthia firmly. It may have been
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    New Coward's Play
    61 2 New Coward's Play IjOEL COWARD flitting 1* Malaya some years ago. left behind an impression that he was no respecter of Colonial Governors, Is he drawing upon memo rles of that visit to Singapore in writing his new play for London production "Home and Colonial?" Fur the principal character will
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    Martyrs who mar marriage
    411 2 JEAN WISEMAN calls for wore healthy srljishnuss to avoid trouble in the home. MARRIED people can be too unselfish. Martyrs can murder matrimony just as easily as the neglected or self-centred partner who breaks up the home. There is ihe clothes martyr —the mother who likes
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    Keep That Figure
    159 2 "QOROTHY NYE. an American expert on posture, has discoverea that you can have fun with a vacuum cleaner. In the April issue of a fashion magazine she demonstrates how to del house and improve your figure, too. While she vacuums a chair she bends from the hip*,
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    MINK COAT -& ITS RED
    11 2 MINK COAT ITS RED A A is fit'* it fl"^ pock-
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    U.S. WOMANS DIARY
    306 2  - U.S. WOMANS DIARY KAY MURR AY B>-^ AMERICAN teenage youth never sl< tt> voice Its opinions, has been given its views on parents. At a forum sponsored by the New York Times on its own radio station, discussing 'What Kind of Parents Children Want?", a panel of twelve youthful members
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      91 2 10 OK RADIANT \tl \^]/9w IN RECORD TIME I R) WITH >JH ELIZABETH ARDEN'S k GENTLE A J P A bracing masque to banish facial fatigue. So gentl« that e ~ost delicate skin responds radiantly. Smooth o^ tht casque ater a busy day whi'e you ren tee yo^r jkin trar:
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      66 2 o f Colour is Reflected in 01 R LATEST ARRI\ \L CHENILLE FURNISHING FABRICS. In s«'lf colour* of <»old. Bm»\m Greem, Hvd and M u-h n»«uu. UUb[ for Majr» urlain-. $6.95 n:K \ki». 1 ROBINSONS RAFFLES PLACE SPORE MADE WITH 1M HLACKCIRRANT J\ l Hlt eflCl A UIXICIOI I 1
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      154 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR BORN today, you are self-possessed and confident. You know you have talent and are determined to make a success of your life. Y'ou are, however, too apt to underestimate the capabilities of your competitors and associates and this does not make for popularity! Learn to be a
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      65 2 competitors and veryvaluable to your ultimate plans for success! If you follow your intuitions at all times you rarehr, if ever, will make a mistake. No matter how far-fetched your hunch seems at the time follow it for the best results. Rely upon yourself and your own judgment, never upon
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      143 2 New Crossword No. 42 ~^^J IW I, qI 1 ■W s^^r MEmik £^S -i3Sf CLtJBfl Koss I. Fish for daily help (4). 4. Music. when-\o:ces die 1 ifl ley) (4i. q. Gun. Dora, on shore no doubt (7> a. I lake :>0 to nothing (1). 10. For a top do
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    28 3 Mr Tr>gvr I (.enrr.il of i as h*> left >'r>*i*t. London. on the Primt Irmrnt Mr. Lie tea visited i ll.i-ur and is iei i «»ti his way
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    REDS FLOOD H.K. WITH BOOKS
    250 3 No law against importation F¥O\r Knvr HONG KONG Tuesday. JJONG KONG is being flooded with Communist P.kin o^ l^ m rature Most of it is printed in Peking and Shanghai and shipped here b v train and It consists of comic strips, pictorials booklets magazines
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    One concentration camp less
    63 3 One concentration camp less A nens radio, Mr. Pi laid, "The government has decided to abolish Ifakronicia aa a concentration camp lor civilian detainees. "Those who be released because they are considerd by Committees provided by law as dangerous to public security will be removed to another Island, where they
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    28 3 ind ijue**n braved thundrry weather to vi>it kion site and survey the pro?rr,s being. irp *e?n teavUif the partly built oruert Hall <»n the South Bank festival sit**
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    India holds 2,865 people under new law
    34 3 India holds 2,865 people under new law IS. Tues are :n Ind gaoled in A:> been j D in B and potential tea are oam 140. i 1 21 Detention I <-rnperson ain A.P.
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    Truman confers an atomic issue
    33 3 Truman confers an atomic issue D LUtieninal, o) the Conimis<>r forty. :;L Tru- i r>f ace- atomic n\ asked me to I al said, -i in a conq atomic before I months travel
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    TAX ON BABIES SUGGESTED
    61 3 pjARD up for revenue, the Board of Commissioners of Karnal district, north of New Delhi, has asked for permission to levy a3O cent birth tax on babies In an application to the Punjab provincial government, the board Mid the tax not only would provide a steady
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    CABINET QUITS
    30 3 The Syrian Cabinet led oy Prime Minister Khaled el Asetn Bey has resigned owing to the crisis which followed the resignation of the Defence Minister. Attram Houranl Reuter.
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    RAIL TOWN TAKEN
    27 3 Burmese Government forces have reoccupied without opItion the important railway centre of Paungde. Immediately south of Promf\ rdlng to reports from the dfdfd Reuter
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    Legless swimmer
    34 3 IR-OLD teftess b;>> in Sydnt\v learned to Mim Wtf unlv two months instruction. leca were amputated after he was involved in a •lid'-nt Recently he swam 25 yards in 3H dfdfd Reuter
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    U.K. JETS FOR U.S. AIRLINES
    159 3 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. LWITED States (Jovernment officials are considerj ing using a foreign-built Jet transport plane either the British Comet or the Canadian jet liner —for scheduled operation t<*sty over T.S. domestic airline routes. The proposal was made oecause the U.S. has no jet transport and
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    INGRID IN SWITZERLAND
    40 3 LUGANO. Tues. —II Bergman and Roberto Rossellini arrived here .secretly on Friday, the Swiss Telegraph Agency reported today. The brief agency leport said the couple arrived "in strict incognito" and their preci.se whereabouts are not known. A.P.
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    World fair in 1953 for San Diego
    131 3 World fair in 1953 for San Diego SAN DIEGO, Tues. PLANS to launch a two million dollar campaign here to underwrite a world's fair in 1953 have been announced by the California World Progress Exposition Board of Directors. Until recently the fair WM merely a '"proposed" venture. The board gave
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    Mr.Liaquat Ali for Hollywood
    90 3 HOLLYWOOD, Tues pRIME Minister Llaquat Ali Khan of Pakistan will be honoured by leaders of the motion picture industry with a banquet here on May 18. The Association of Motion Picture Producers announced the plans on Sunday, and said chief executives of all major studios and
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    LOYALTY PROBE IS EXTENDED
    94 3 LOYALTY PROBE IS EXTENDED WASHINGTON. Tues THE Senate Foreign Relations Sub-committee has extended its Communist Investigations to the cold war battlefronts. It ordered two of its members, Mr. Henry Cabot Lodge, Republican, and I Mr. Theocore Green, Democrat, to make an on the spot check of State Department loyalty and
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    Bridge Hands
    370 3 "THE play of this deal neld unusual Interest. Web' opened the spade queen. Dummy'* king won and now declarer fared a problem. He nad to find a place to get rid of a losing spade in a hurry. To set up dummy's diamonds, he would have to lead
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    49 3 Mrs. Frith, the wife of MaJ.Gen. C. E. A. Frith, commander of the East Anglian District, England, stands in front of the house she has just officially opened. B> the middle of this year the first 100 houses on the new 160-acre Army estate will be ready for occupation.
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    OLD PAGAN LIONS FOUND
    181 3 ADEN, Tuesday. AN AMERICAN expedition digging near the ruins of a temple near Behan, where ancient pagans worshipped the moon, have announced the discovery of two brass lions more than 2,000 years old. 1 The explorers said they also found a pitcher beHeved to be 600
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    Coronation ends
    35 3 The newly-crowned King and Queen of Siam visited the Royal Palace Hall on Saturday, where the monarch made the symbolical gesture of reclining, thereby concluding the three-do v Coronation ser- vices. A. P.
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    Rome braces herself for total battle
    236 3 VATICAN CITY, Tuesday. DOMAN Catholicism is bracing itself for what many Vatican sources believe will be a violent and total offensive bv Communism against the Catholic Church. To many in this spiritual capital of the world's Catholics, the vast propaganda battle appears to be
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    Tibetans fail to find Mao's men in India
    247 3 CAI.C 1 TTA Tuesday T»HE oilicial Tibetan delegation, seeking a friend* 1 ship pact with Communist China, was startled in Calcutta on Sunday wjfc'n they were unable to find any Communists. The seven-man group lr-ft Lhasa in February, trudging 28 days over
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    CHIANG TO DROP RICE TO HUNGRY
    124 3 CHIANG TO DROP RICE TO HUNGRY HONG KONG T TWE Chinese Nationalises I planning to dr.» canvas bags containing rice. other loods and comfort letters from the z\r famine areas of Communist, China, the independen; dpw>pap^r Wah Kiu Ya' Po reported yes erday. The aewapapw Talyvi correspondent said drops have
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    PRAISE AND BLAME
    26 3 Dr A C. Oppler, the Legislation and j brant Arthur's legal has praised the Japa: as a sible minori "grace niggers o\ Reuter
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    An iron for journeys
    83 3 \2UPOI M) electric trav-llin- iron d">it;n«-d for use anywhere in the world in being made in the I nited Mates. The iron operates on 115 volts in Ameri- i volts in foreign countries on either AC <allernatin« i rent) or DC (direct current). It has a
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      156 3 iSr ?vJij x-^ZA* 'fir* -m _<*^ V Hiv \l\MIK'W(H<r GREAT NAMES IN THE WORLD OF MUSIC ARTUR RITiINSTEIN Pianoforte TRAUMEREI iDreaimng. Op 15 I No. 7 (Schumann) 9 Kj WIEGENLIED tCradle Seng- Op NO. 4 [M 1 lEBESI lED .D'\o-;onV Op 25 No. 1 (Schumann, arr I. z. DB 6j
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      232 3 SINGAPORE BFEBS [Singapore] (BKUK NtTWORK) TODA¥ 4.45 Programme summary; 4.47 SB4 and 41 7 metres. From the London Editorials" KmercencT news from K.I. <BBC»; 455 "Composer of the r.mrrnriiij mm Week'-Debussy; 5.15 'Commonat 1» t.m wealth Survey" (BBC); 5.30 TODAY "Whose Body?" 3 *A Trip to ir, ai, Tnm Salisbury';
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      129 3 WHAT'S ON IN K.L. REX: A Kiss For Corliss PAVILION: Gone With The Wind. ODEON: The Chiltern Hundred* COLISEUM: Sorrowful Jones. MADBAB: Miss Feng's Loves (Mandarin*. CATHAY: Gnana Soundari (Tamil*. VENUS: Shi See Koon (Mandarin 1. CENTRAL: Life (Tamil). HINDI STAN: Shabnam (Hindi). PINANG REX: Kiss In the Dark. ODEON:
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    The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY May 9, 1950. SOMETHING FOR NOTHING
    478 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY May 9, 1950. SOMETHING FOR NOTHING THE phenomenal success of ihe Den US. IS. library b R:.f!'.s Place is proof igh if proof were needed of Singapore's mounting thirst for knowledgc From the moment it v ai opened, people poured ough the doors, beseiged t
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    Don Iddon's Diary
    1204 4 NEW YORK: QH, to be in Europe and spend some dollars there! The travel agencies in New York are black with people; the Transatlantic liners sail away with full passen£ci lists. Four hundred thousand Americans plan trips to Europe this Y?ar. Each will spend 1.000 dollars or
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    THIS is Democracy
    221 4 STUTTGART: fERMAN citizens wll never succeed m controlling their governments once they have elected them unless they organize in associations dedicated to constant representation of popular interests, Major General Charles P. Gross. Slate Commissioner for Wrerttem-berg-Baden declared recently adding: "In Germany there exists today rule by bureaucracy
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    BREVITIES
    94 4 ACCORDING to U.S. diet expert DR. ANCEL KEYS, America is developing a serldus national nutrition problem— over-eating LITTLE MEN usually make the most henpecked husbands, according to a personality survey of more than 1.000 men made at a London hospital Their nature makes them more dependent on their wives
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    21 4 Warrant officers from Nigeria learn how to bark words of command in the bes<parade ground manner from a Guards sergeant major.
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    58 4 Among the many swimmers who hope to swim the chan?lS r i nfl 7ie oming season is this seventeen-year-old Scarborough girl, Margaret Feather. Members of the Scarborough Amateur Swimming Club consider that her C tn a r n nrll o.ood.that they have opened a £500 fund to cover the cost
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    USI Chinese Have The Big Cars
    663 4  -  Kenneth Likes i V I who points out why Indonesians are jealous 4 i loj the Chinese in their* I country, 1 JAKARTA: INDONESIA'S Chinese have felt the squeeze of the turbulent nationalist revolution here but have manoeuvred through it to a comparatively Favourable
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    SKINDISEASE MYSTERY
    98 4 SKINDISEASE MYSTERY TMMBFR i L In Australia are I the mystery of .-kin titls and similar complain affect inp employees handling timber. Recently a case \va> n ported to the Fu. roducts Division of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Melbourne where workmen complained of headaches and heaviness
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    SOS' For French Insects
    104 4 SOS' For French Insects (IYER r Austra: and fores the St. This from F for a pri\ be Ran ipreftd Three flu", is D plat* pas" and ru. sheep and To as to kill tl:> now a sects France A: Commoi and In gam-.. France lection bee" h there, a
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    MEMORIAL DAY
    12 4 public v. at 10.30 a n in cor: Day Urdu
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    40 5 MR. Tan speaking at the first annual dinner of the H. Tan Accountancy School, held at Diamond Ilcstaurant. Great World, on Saturday. Mrs. C. C. Tan presented certificates to successful students in the examination of Certified Secretaries held last year.
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    NEW ANTI-SPEEDING TRAPS
    306 5 NEW ANTI-SPEEDING TRAPS Traffic Police campaign Free Press Staff Reporter fHE Singapore Traffic Police are training a new team to operate "speed traps" to catch motorists driving at more than 30 miles an hour in built up areas. Other methods of checking over long distances are also being tested. These
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    'English is world language'
    71 5 M.itl Kepurter inj lage is so flea to .iid Bit -liming. Dean University, .tion i Nationie Singa- lsl night. sensible benguage. I Euro- in he said. I in the j you can In Romanj i can nd of any eessar] >e is in learn It If
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    Sea gypsies' welfare
    72 5 JOHORE BAHRU Mon. The Social Welfare Department has sent $1,000 to the State Secretary. Johore. for welfare work among the sea >:es. ol Johore or Orang ar as they are generally culled. These people are descend- > of an aboriginal tribe which inhabited Malaya and are so
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    AWARDS UN ART SHOW
    380 5 Singapore boys and yiris have been awarded certificates ol merit for their entries In the Ninth Ii; Schi I A: s and Cralts Exhin which opened at fhe Victoria Memorial Hall this morning. The awards u Bcwteg and embroidery i under 11 >ear*>: Kr.e Cmn Ke*
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    'Our boys keener students'
    132 5 'Our boys keener students Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE students are more enthusiastic in their studies than Canadian schoolchildren, Mr. Cyril S. Jansen. of the Serangoon English School. who has Just returned from Canada, told the Free Press yesterday. Mr. Jansen made a six months' tour of Canadian schools under
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    $1.000 BAIL
    50 5 Baii of $1,000 was allowed in the Singapore Second District Court yesterday when Ho Kal Sfn% pleaded not guilty to a charge of being in potlesi D ol 5U7 leaf packets (f chancluc in North Bridge Road un Muv 7 The case was postponed otu week tor mention.
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    No jazz for racehorses
    80 5 PENANG. Mon. RACEHORSES in Penans stables will not have their rest disturbed by dance music. Faced with strong opposition from owners and trainers, the Penang Turf Club Committee has decided to recommend to members that a proposal to build a dance hall for the International luh
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    PRIZE-GIVING
    28 5 The Director of Rdneation. Singapore. Mr. A. W. Frisby. will presen' prizes for the Malay Schools exhibits at 5 p.m. tomorrow in the Kota Raia Malay School.
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    Big Muslim dispute: police alert
    172 5 Free Press Malay orrespondent THE police are "fully aware" of the doctrinaire dispute between the All-Malaya Muslim Missionary Society and the Qadiani movement In Singapore and are "taking the necessary steps to prevent the outbreak of incidents which may prejudice law and order in the
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    34 5 picture. MR Liu Kanjj, president of the Singapore >eiety of Chinese Artists, unrolls an entry for the Ninth Inter-School Arts and Crafts Exhibition which is being held at the Victoria Memorial Hal). Free Press
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    39 5 picture ANXIOUS to learn, these M alay girls crowded round to register at the first Peo pie's Education Association class for Malay women which was started in Singapore, yesterday. Teachers are s'udents of the University of Malaya.- Free Press
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    SPCA APPEALS FOR FUNDS
    371 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THE chairman of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Mrs. K. S. Clemons, told the Free Press yesterday that the Society has started a drive to obtain money fo r its many new enterprises. Working separately from the Municipality,
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    Thumbstick as prize
    79 5 A CAMPING competition was held last week-end at Tanjong Baku under the Colonel P. Godfrey-Faus.sett. the District Commissioner for the Services and Handicapped District; s The prize for the winning patrol, a silver mounted thumb-stick which originally belonged to Colonel Faussett's father, and had been used by
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    ACQUITTED
    38 5 T. Ramu of Oeylang R< Singapore was yesterday ac- quitted by the Second Mai trate. Mr. S. E. Teh. on a charge of outraging thei modesty of a married Indian woman. The defence was not, called upon
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    MAILS
    41 5 Surface mail is expected in Singapore today from Siani. Situ. U.S.A., Burma and the Federation. Latest time.=; for posting surface mail today ai the G.P.O. are: noon j for Indian. Pakistan and Djambi; i 5.45 for Siam and the Federation.
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    Boys' club to occupy Hong Lint Green
    260 5 Boys club to occupy Hong Lint Green Free Press Start Reporter T*HE Singapore Government has agreed in principle to the taking over, by a new boys' club, of tinland and premises now occupied by the Singapore Chinese Recreation Club when the club quit^ Hong Lim Green. The handing over of
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    Protection payments alleged
    109 5 Protection payments alleged Free Press Staff K:'P<irt«r A LLEGATIOXS that li\ toers of the Singu; i Police Force and employee the Town Cl<-ar.: ng Dep ment use children to "protection mom hawkers were made by unlicensed ha? one woman. before the four i. meetin- day of I gapore Hawk' r
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    42 6 Sir Tristram (Healey) just holds off the fast-finishing Dakota (Charles) to win the seventh race at Penang on Saturday. The photo-finish shows that Sir Tristram beat the grey by a short head. It was Sir Tristram's maiden victory on the Malayan turf.
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    BONNIE GREY, CARACALLA BEST BETS
    1097 6 BONNIE GREY, CARACALLA BEST BETS Heddle to land two winners By ALLAN LEWIS PENANG, Tuesday. RACEGOERS are set a stiff task in picking winners tomorrow, second day of the Penang Turf Club Summer meeting. Safest bets should be Bonnie Grey and Caracalla. Singapore trainer Allan Heddle may be followed profitably.
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    Father Ryan to make amends
    280 6 /^LASS 2 horses are provided with only two races tomorrow. They are in divisions three and four, the second runs over six furlongs to be decided. Winners of these divisions are not easy to pick, as form is conspicuous by its absence. Ballymun 11. Father
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    ***** profit from Empire Games
    62 6 4 SURPLUS of £20.000. a\ with more still to come in. wma shown from the recent Empire Oames, which w.-r---d at Auckland. New Zealand, by more than 246.000 pie. The protits from the official film arc not yet known. AthletiM events wt-r-- by tar the
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    ADELAIDE CUP ACCEPTORS
    86 6 riIXTEEN horses have been O left in Lit the ftnml acceptance stage for the Adelaide Cup iA£2.Boo>, ro be run two miles at Morphetrllle ract'cr)!irse, Adolaid*'. tomorr 1 The acceptors with weights are Chievely Ba. Bold John 8 ri. Dor 8 1. Peerless Fox 7 12. Auburm
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    11-NIL VICTORY
    52 6 11 -NIL VICTORY J^OTA RAJA A 1 set a scoring record m the S.A.F.A. Junior A Group 2 competition yesterday when they defeated Postal and Telecoms Union by eleven goals to nil at Geylang stadium. Scorers were- Ahmat «3K Ibrahim (S>, Dollah <penalty>. Amir, Ismail Arsad and Mir scored a
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    BEETHAM WINS
    48 6 HERBERT BEETHAM. of Derby, beat Rex Williams of Blackheath. Staffordshire by 1,309 points to 754 in their third-round match in the English amateur billiards championship at Burrouah's Hall, London, yesterday Beetham. 41 -year-old run-ner-up in 193« and 1946 had century breaks of 150 and 154. Reuter
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    Woodcock or Savold must fight Charles
    235 6 MK. J Onslow Fane, chairman of the British Boxing Board of Control, said yesterday that the winner of the Bruce Woodcock-Lee Savolri heavyweight fight should b- forced" to meet Ez^ard Charles, the world champion as recognised by the National Boxing Association of America Fane
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    Traders show caution
    396 6 dfdfdf LONDON. T U CAUTION and hesitancy were uppcrm*. London Stock Exchange yesterda> financial correspondent. Operators ad<>:)i« <: slow*' policy whilst awaiting outcome of ttu power conference to be held in London Uiiv British Government storks opened 01 note and with the start of dealings in tl
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    18 6 Tl^e New V fluctuate nar: ing 1 iostes equally :(J6*eS 111. ased pr«= II rate Reuter
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    Changes in Derby betting
    30 7 about the .by fancies changed fol- racing in card was .it the Parrial i 23-1 t )-6. •wo Prix I main be •he Mid K the
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    PERMIT FOR ONLY 4.200 FOR BIG FIGHT
    317 7 PERMIT FOR ONLY 4.200 FOR BIG FIGHT Butpromoter will carry on pERHAPS the most worried man in Singapore today is boxing promoter A. Razak. Three days ago he received a permit for the staging of the return contest between Dave Sands and Boy Brooks which entitled him to seat only
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    Best gallop by Young Lucius
    254 7 From ALLAN LEWIS PENANG. Tuesday. V°l N^i I ucius (Kllery) nol only did the best time fcut was also the most impressive at this morning's workouts. He clocked 39J seconds for three furlongs well on the bit. Caravan went over three in 40. in pleasing
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    S'pore junior table tennis
    117 7 S'pore junior table tennis THE FIR.- I :w* in the Singapore Table tennis Association s juvem> championships were played at the Great World yesterday. The nin<* .ies played resulted. Lee How Fork bat Jacob Chorp 21-13. 21-14 21-6: Lim Sai Loons beat L.m Seow Hen 21-17. 21-9. 21-14: Yan Wai
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    Inter-school Tourney
    72 7 In the inter-school lea^ut' rh«»shipfl in which .^even t^arns from five English and Chinese are p-'irtiripatin?. Rrrfnp«; ■uMor> 'TV 'P?rn wfr' down to m Andrews A 1 team bv elghl eames to one. Andrew's 'B' team however were ea^ilv nearer, bv Chinese Hij'h Sch^u favourite* in fhe leapue
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    C.Y.M.A. win 2-nil
    57 7 JOHORP BAHHU. TUO. THE Catholic Young Men s Association. Johore Bahru. cored a two nil victory over the United Youngsters of Singapore at tr on the Istona pndang on >i "oals uere scored in .ion of the game uch Ee Wee Kuang the eentri rhe secend nool
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    League favourites fully extended
    347 7 Kota Raja 3; SRC 2. SINGAPORE Recreation Club nearly managed to take a point from Kota Raja a thing which no other team had yet done when they clashed in the S.A.F.A. Senior League at Jalan Besar Stadium last evening. They surprised the League favourites b\
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    Mercer may carry on
    299 7  -  ARCHIE QUICK By AS the players trooped off the field at Highbury after Arsenal had beaten Portsmouth two-nil last Wednesday, the huge 65.000 mid-week crowd failed to sen.se that they were probably seeing captain Joe Mercer and volatile Denli Compton for the last time In the
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    Today's sport
    58 7 SCKt'ER: Mno Malays v. Hong Kong Services at .la lan Besar; Snr. lge: K r M F v. R A V. C'hand; Jnr. A 2: Cosmos t. Indonesian* \V at Grylanc Business H«e (replay): Malayan Airways v. Borneo Motors on padang. Table tennis: Juvenile singles and inter -school
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    CROSBY WILL PLAY SINGER
    227 7 /CROONER Bing Crosby \J drew an amateur hillbilly singer yesterday for a firstround opponent in the British amateur golf tournament which begins at St. Andrews on May 22. The opponent is D K Wilson. 43-year-old building contractor from St. Andrews, who frequently sings at amateur theatricals.
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    50 7 Roads A" beat Head Oflire "A" by three games to nil in the Municipal Engineer's Department inter-set -tion tennis final for the Carlos Cup on Saturday. Back row, from left to rijjht: Weston. Keelan. Dreyer. Manasseh. Peng Kdoii. Front row. from left to riuht: Fook Thong. Tons Hee and Chitty.
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    TODAY'S SOCCER
    23 7 HONG KONG ARMY ff il play Sino-Malays at Jalan Besar stadium ihli evening. Gate admission will be $1 and 50 cents.
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    FRANKLIN TO COACH IN COLOMBIA
    200 7 ENGLISH soccer circles were shocked yesterday to learn that the Stoke City and England centre-half. Neil Franklin, had left unexpectedly on Sunday night for Colombia. Franklin and George Mountford. Stoke City right half, left London airport with their wives and families for Bogota, where they
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    DAVIS CUP RESULTS
    139 7 BELGIUM and Finland *>ach won a singles on the last day of their iirst-round European zone Davis Cup lawn tennis match at Brussels yesterday. Having won the first two singles and the doubles. Belgium, with 4-1 win. entei the second round to play Yugoslavia, who on Sunday
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    W.lndies add 52 to score
    64 7 W.lndies add 52 to score QNLY 65 minutes play wa.passible on the second day of the West Indies iricket touring teams match with Worcestershire \esterdav because of rain. In that time the tourists added 52 runs to their Saturday score without further loss, taking their score to 249 for four
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    SCOREBOARD
    41 7 RTESI IM)lt>— Ul louk. R.ir Yarnold b Jenkins Stollinrrrr r Kcnvon b Perks K Hnrrrd Vamnld b Jenkins X5 l\>cke» r Yarnold b Jrnkins M Walrolt nut out 4* lrcnlr.nl not OUt 45 Extras Total ifor 4 wktvi Ml BfUIM
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    RAIN CURTAILS U.K. CRICKET
    409 7 T\ULL skies, from which rain fell steadily, made another unpleasant day for most teams concerned with first-class cricket matches yesterday and while some play was possible at three venues, others produced no play. Three were called off befure lunch and at Lord's, where Middlesex are at
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    I.A. may lodee protest to S.C.A.
    212 7 I.A. may lode e protest to S.C.A. \S emergency meeting of th«* Indian Associat i Board of Control fo r (James will be held at 1 Malacca Street, at 6 p.m. today to consider the dceision of the Singapore Cricket Association few committee awarding the SRC lirst-inninuv pciintM in their
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    Awang Bakar No. 1 scorer
    135 7 11 1 two .o.tlk against R<« t'.tliun < !uk» brought Awaiig Ilak^r's :.nl\ m Hie S I v, ii en I a_;-.' season to ten. The leading scorer in lltpi is sill h.ri nI i K< v«-im, wh-tsi total iv i < of them from
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    WORLD WAR WARNING BYCHIANG
    333 8 Asks sanctions on Russia HONG KONG, Tuesday. QEN. CHIANG KAI-SHEK yesterday called for r sanctions against Russia. He said there was danger of another world war starting in Asia and the best way for the democracies to prevent it is to give the Chinese Nationalists enough
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    38 8 Berlin -iressma'ker. 19-year-oM trsuia rscliacSiUr, wild was chosen by popular vot<» as "Miss Berlin 1f>50." going to Wiesbaden to compete for the "Miss Germany" title. If successful, she will then compete In Paris for the "Miss Europe" title.
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    TIGER SNAKE vs. 4 DOGS
    47 8 SYDNEY, Tues. J^ VICIOUS 10-minute battle between a tiger snake and four miniature fox terriers at Warrion (Australia) ended in the death of the snake and three dogs. The dogs had killed more than 100 snakes in the last year.— A P
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    BIRTHS
    39 8 DONOt'GH To Enid, wife of M G Donouijh. «t K.K >n May 8. a son. Harold J ha. N WIJK To Jacqul. wile Van Wijk at K.K. HospiUl. :i !\!ay. at 3.15 p m.. a daughter Renee Maria.
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    64 8 1 HE. FAMILY of the late Mrs. V Uicille Velge wi^h to express trrfelt thanks to all kind; *nd friends who attendhe funeral as well as those wreaths. tele«raras and of condolence S P K MENON and' di all friends and re-: Pa who sent messages of con- DC*
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    Japs get money control
    140 8 TOKIO, Tues > JON-MILITARY transac- i tions in Japan will be placed on a y^n basis and internal business activities involving foreign exchange will become subject to Japanese Government control after July 1. Gen. MacArthur announced yesterday in a turther sweeping move to restore the Japanese
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    U.S. BOWS TO U.N. CHARTER
    52 8 THE California Stab* District Court of ADo^al has ruled California's alien land law is nof enforcibln bfcau.v it conflicts with the United Nations Charter. The land law prohibits Japanese and a few other Asian nationals from owning land In California because of th*»lr lnfor citizenship.
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    Red decline
    29 8 Signer Salvatori Rebecohim the Mayor of Rome, who firrived in New York by air on Monday told reporters that Communist activity is declln- in-4 in Italy.— A.P.
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    Radiation antidote
    26 8 Three Belgian scientists report that use of a poisonous chemical sodium cyanide has afforded high protection to mice against deadly doses of radiation. A.P.
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    'U.N. must be free of Reds'
    69 8 WASHINGTON. Tues. rRMER US. President Herbert Hoover says if the United Nations is ever to be useful to humanity "it must free Itself of Communist domination, not add to it." The former President made th** statement in favouring a positive declaration that the United
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    'Game' was too rough
    77 8 THE Mayor of Mosine (Wisconsin) and one of the town's clergymen died following a mock "one day under Communism" game played by the town's inhabitants. Mayor Ralph Kronewetter, who was dragged from his bed during the mock Red coup, died as a result of cerebral haemorrhajjo
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    U.S. PAPER CALLS IT EFFRONTERY
    143 8 CHICAGO, Tuesday. A FTER all we have done for the British, their attempt to unload U.5.58,400 millions of their stale debts on the American taxpayer is incredible effrontery", says the Chicago Tribune, commenting on th e suggestion that America should aid Britain meet wartime debts
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    YOUTH ATTRACTED
    27 8 Fifteen thousand youths. 80 per cent, of them from Oriental countries. have settle^ in Israel since the state was proclaimed on May 15, 1948 A.P.
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    Most nations to attend-Quirino
    202 8 PACIFIC UNION TALKS MANILA, Tuesday. PRESIDENT Elpidio Quirino told a news conference a "substantial majority" of the countries in South-East Asia will participate in a conference opening in Baguio on May 26 and aimed at forming a Pacific union. He added he felt certain "it will
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    The saintly labourer
    52 8 VATICAN CITY, Tues POPE PIUS XII raised a former Spanish labourer to sainthood In papal pomp on Sunday while 53.000 faithfuls looked on. Anthony Marl* Claret, textile worker who became Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cuba 100 years ago, was elevated in the second can- nonlsation of the
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    18 8 A man who drank some wine which he was selling in Toklo has died of methyl poisoning- Reuter
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    BOAC COMING OUT OF RED
    55 8 LORD Douglas of Kirtleside. Chairman of the Board of BOAC. has arrived in New York. He told reporters he believed commercial aviation will be completely converted to jet planes within the next ten years. He said he expected BOAC to operate "in the black within
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    Doctor claims TB cure
    122 8 Doctor claims TB cure TOKIO, Tues. A JAPANESE doctor yesterday claimed the discovery of a new injection fluid which is 90 per cent, effective in curing tuberculosis. The claim was made by 45--year-old Dr. Katsu Masa»ame, chief of the Kamakura tuberculosis Research Institute, in his report to the 25th Annual
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    Dousing bout 'too trivial'
    71 8 NEW DELHI. Tues. POLICE dropped the cas< against John Edwards 27-year-old British war hero, who was booked on a charge of assault on Saturday after a night club brawl :n which he and the Argentine Ambassador, Dr Oscar Tascheret. doused each other with whisky and \ct*
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    REDS DISSOLVE
    33 8 The Japanese Communist Party on May 5 ordered the dissolution of the Communist call on the campus of Tokyo University, according to the Japanese press yetter- day. Reuter A A P
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    Reds break truce, machine-gun women
    169 8 HONG KONG, Tuesday. VATIONALIST soldiers ai riving at Kohsing (Formosa) from Hainan Island said yesterday that Chinese Communists had massacred hundreds of disarmed Nationalist troops and their families after the two sides had arranged an evacuation truce. Lieut Wong Wei-chou. who had a bullet In
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